AR-News: (US DC) Endangered Species Act's Protections Trimmed Back

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff  Writer
Sunday, July 4, 2004; Page A01  
<NITF>The Bush administration has succeeded in reshaping the Endangered  
Species Act in ways that have sharply limited the impact of the 30-year-old law  
aimed at protecting the nation's most vulnerable plants and animals, according  
to environmentalists and some independent anal 
The Bush initiatives, which have ranged from recalculating the economic costs 
 of protecting critical habitats to limiting the number of species added to 
the  protected list, reflect a policy shift that Interior Secretary Gale A. 
Norton  calls the "New Environmentalism." Under this approach, federal officials 
have  focused more on providing incentives to private landowners to protect 
the  habitats of endangered species than on prohibiting human activity on those  
lands. While some environmentalists praise the incentive programs, they say  
these projects are not enough to protect animals and plants on the brink of  
extinction. 
 
full  story:
_http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26242-2004Jul3.html_ 
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26242-2004Jul3.html)  


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